1st Edition
Islamophobia in European Cities Solidarities, Responses and Dilemmas for Young Balkan Muslims
By Francesco Trupia
Copyright 2025
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The demise of socialism in Southeast Europe coincided with the breakout of wars and genocidal violence against local Muslim populations. After being displaced and forced to migrate to different European countries, those former socialist citizens quickly developed institutions of sociability and unobtrusively enacted postulates of solidarity. This book brings a spotlight on the “generations after”... Read more
Introduction
1. Being (with) the Other
2. The Ummah and the “Balkan Rest”
3. Echoes of War
4. Believing without Belonging?
5. Halal or Haram?
6. Political Sensitivities and Civic Responses to Islamophobia
7. City(zens) of Silence
Conclusion
Biography
Francesco Trupia is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His research interests range from identity and memory politics to minority inclusion, from post-socialist democratisation to study of civil society in Southeast and Eastern Europe.
